Balcony gardening
Jul. 2nd, 2009 01:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marinessSo for Christmas, tgregoryt got me a little porch gardening thing, which according to the picture works like this:
The porch garden stands about five feet up on five sturdy plastic pillars.
The top of the porch garden (about 2 ½ feet by 2 ½ feet) overflows with flowers and herbs.
Tomato plants, loaded with tempting ripe tomatoes, dangle down from the top of the garden.
The bottom of the porch garden is filled with little pots (not included) of delightful herbs.
Cats remain at a respectful distance, staring at the porch garden in awe.
Many of you, of course, are reading this and thinking, hmm, Photoshop at work. In actual fact, the porch garden works a bit more like this:
1. Porch garden falls over.
2. Seeds in the top section are therefore wildly scattered, with the result that although things are certainly growing there (not flowers since we didn't plant those) we have absolutely no clue what said things are. Some may be weeds, and I'm hopeful that some of it is my mint since I like using fresh mint, but it's extremely difficult to tell.
3. Cats take abundant delight in small little pots and take every opportunity, including those not given, to zip out between the legs of the poor person attempting to water the porch plants so that they can have the joy of knocking things over.
The real problem, however, is with the dangling tomato plants, which according to the picture are supposed to be growing DOWN. Instead, in merry defiance of both gravity and the picture, they have decided to grow UP – more specifically, crawling sideways beneath the bottom of the porch thingy and then heading straight up, making the entire thing look like a major mess entirely unlike the picture. I showed them the picture.
"You're not following the picture!"
Sarcastic silence from the tomato plants.
That's not the only thing we have planted out there, and I'm delighted to note that mysterious things are spouting up in other pots, the new citrus plant is citrusing, and the one clearly identifiable plant not in the porch garden, the catnip, is growing with utter wild abandon even with the clear signs of little cat prints in the dirt next to it, and the distinct signs of little teeth. Alas, this has led certain small furry creatures to the conclusion that I should be spending my time opening and closing the balcony door so that they can bravely try to stop the catnip from taking over the balcony – they assure me they are willing to make sacrifices for this – and, of course, push over little pots along the way.
tgregoryt got me a little porch gardening thing, which according to the picture works like this: The porch garden stands about five feet up on five sturdy plastic pillars.
The top of the porch garden (about 2 ½ feet by 2 ½ feet) overflows with flowers and herbs.
Tomato plants, loaded with tempting ripe tomatoes, dangle down from the top of the garden.
The bottom of the porch garden is filled with little pots (not included) of delightful herbs.
Cats remain at a respectful distance, staring at the porch garden in awe.
Many of you, of course, are reading this and thinking, hmm, Photoshop at work. In actual fact, the porch garden works a bit more like this:
1. Porch garden falls over.
2. Seeds in the top section are therefore wildly scattered, with the result that although things are certainly growing there (not flowers since we didn't plant those) we have absolutely no clue what said things are. Some may be weeds, and I'm hopeful that some of it is my mint since I like using fresh mint, but it's extremely difficult to tell.
3. Cats take abundant delight in small little pots and take every opportunity, including those not given, to zip out between the legs of the poor person attempting to water the porch plants so that they can have the joy of knocking things over.
The real problem, however, is with the dangling tomato plants, which according to the picture are supposed to be growing DOWN. Instead, in merry defiance of both gravity and the picture, they have decided to grow UP – more specifically, crawling sideways beneath the bottom of the porch thingy and then heading straight up, making the entire thing look like a major mess entirely unlike the picture. I showed them the picture.
"You're not following the picture!"
Sarcastic silence from the tomato plants.
That's not the only thing we have planted out there, and I'm delighted to note that mysterious things are spouting up in other pots, the new citrus plant is citrusing, and the one clearly identifiable plant not in the porch garden, the catnip, is growing with utter wild abandon even with the clear signs of little cat prints in the dirt next to it, and the distinct signs of little teeth. Alas, this has led certain small furry creatures to the conclusion that I should be spending my time opening and closing the balcony door so that they can bravely try to stop the catnip from taking over the balcony – they assure me they are willing to make sacrifices for this – and, of course, push over little pots along the way.